Lessons for Pig Club Members Bulletin Published
Montana State College Extension Service releases a pig club guide edited by R B Millin. The bulletin targets youth in pig clubs, explaining feeding aims and detailing muscle building and fat building feeds. It compares grain values, noting corn 82 percent fat building material, wheat 81 percent, barley 80 percent, and shows alfalfa compensating for corn deficiencies.
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Pig Club
Montana State College Extension Service
R. B. Millin
Seed corn cautions amid late Montana harvest
A. J. Ognard of the Montana State College Extension Service urges growers to secure seed corn early due to a late season across Montana. He notes Montana had favorable seed conditions last year, but this year is reversed with two to three weeks delay likely to limit ear maturation unless frost is delayed.
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Montana
A. J. Ognard
Montana State College Extension Service
Mr Oqunard
Ogsard
New Wheat Grade Hard Spring Adopted For Montana Growers
Montana growers learn of a new federal wheat grade called Hard Spring effective Aug 15 1924. The grade targets high quality hard red spring wheat with at least 56 percent hard vitreous kernels, 60 pounds per bushel minimum weight, moisture 11 percent, limited damaged kernels, heat damaged grain, and restricted non cereal content.
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Montana
United States
W. O. Whitcomb
Montana Grain Inspection Laboratory
Whitcomb
Bozeman
Cocklebur Identified as Cause of Sheep Losses in Rosebud
Dr. Howard Welch of Montana State College and county agent B. Mercer traced sheep fatalities in Rosebud County to cocklebur. Investigations showed the plant, though not poisonous later, is toxic to cattle hogs and sheep when a seedling with two leaves, during June and July, causing the losses noted by sheepmen.
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Rosebud
Howard Welch
Montana State College
Tok. B. Mercer
Welch
Preventing Hogs From Rooting With Snout Ring Cut
The article suggests removing the snout cartilage rather than applying rings to prevent rooting. This can be done during castration or beforehand with curved scissors. The procedure is simple and claims no harmful effects, but unhealed wounds require protection from dirt until healing is complete.
County Agents Plans Local Livestock Shipping Associations
In Sheridan County under County Agent M. P. Osby farmers plan to form several local livestock shipping associations. After a meeting at Plentywood the initial associations will form at Antelope and Redstone with further groups to follow countywide.
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Sheridan
Sheridan County
M. P. Osby
Plentywood
Antelope
Redstone
Denton Wheat Market Sees No. 1 Dark Hard Winter Lead
Chris Sturm topped Denton prices with a Joad of 1/24 wheat, graded No. 1 dark hard winter. The load tested 61 pounds per bushel. Many Denton fields expected yields over forty bushels per acre.
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Chris Sturm
Denton
Alfalfa Weevil Threat addressed by Imported Parasite
Montana entomologists report that Bathyplectes curculionis, released from Europe by the USDA, destroys up to 90 percent of alfalfa weevil larvae in Utah and promises relief near Montana’s border. Montana maintains strict quarantine and inspection to keep the pest out as the weevil has devastated alfalfa in neighboring Tolalia.
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Montana State College
Europe
United States Department of Agriculture
Utah
Montana
Hubam Clover Suitability in Montana Growslate
Montana State College agronomy advises cautious use of hubam or Wuhan clover to avoid premature seed. The late maturing white sweet clover seeds poorly except in long seasons, so farmers should slow feedings. blue-yellow variety is preferred until more acclimation work is completed.
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Montana
Montana State College
Good Breeding Boosts Montana Dairy Cow Yields
The article notes Montana dairy cows average under 150 pounds of butter fat per cow and argues that through good breeding, feeding, and management, production can double and profits rise. It emphasizes cow condition before calving, recommending drying up six to ten weeks before freshening.
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Montana
Improper Feeding Causes High Turkey Losses
Improper feeding and close confinement cause many turkey failures. Do not feed them. keep them hungry to induce movement. Bugs and green feed should form a large part of the poult diet. The nearer the confinement, the greater the feeding difficulty.
Standad Seed Varieties Highlight in Wolf Point Show
One feature at the Northern Montana Corn and Seed show at Wolf Point focuses on standard varieties of seed. The event runs November 12, 18 and 14 with special emphasis on seed exhibits.
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Montana
Wolf Point
Montana farmer from Missouri builds 200 acre success story
Charles Sindelar of Ballantine migrated from Missouri in 1907 to Montana's Huntley project. He now farms nearly 200 acres with beets wheat corn alfalfa oats and milk from dairy cows. He plans fattening sheep and livestock income to reach about ten thousand dollars yearly.
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Charles Sindelar
Ballantine
Missouri
Ile
Montana
Yellowstone Valley
Northern Pacific Railway
Corny
Mr. Sindelar
Huntley
Elght
Sindelar
Sindelar Farm
California Legion Names James K Fisk Adjutant
James K Fisk, long associated with the University of California, has been named department adjutant for the California American Legion. He served 17 years at the university, including ten as assistant recorder, and held leadership roles in the Berkeley post and department Americanization committee. He served as a first lieutenant in the signal corps during the war and trained as a pilot at Bolling and March fields.
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University of California
James K. Fisk
California Department of the American Legion
Fisk
James BE. Collins
Morton Keaton
University
Berkeley
Legion
Ile
Department
National Disabled Soldiers' League Appeals for Aid Denounced
Gen Clarence R Edwards of the American Legion denounces the National Disabled Soldiers League for sending Boston business circles circulars with lead pencils and a plea for one dollar donations. He notes the group has run afoul of the law and urges the public not to donate any money.
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National
Disabled Soldiers’ League
Boston
Clarence R. Edwards
American Legion
League
Edwards
So Luxurious American Legion Weekly Dialogue
A brief exchange highlights fatigue uniforms used by soldiers with light banter about comfort and luxury during wartime as featured in the American Legion Weekly.
Not Now Rastus Was Dat Yo Girl
A brief quoted exchange appears in the American Legion Weekly reflecting slang terms and social banter of the era. The text presents a casual nighttime greeting questioning a woman, followed by a reply affirming the prior evening.
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Rastus
Rufus
American Legion Weekly
Almost Impossible Bill in War Senate Fight
American Legion Weekly reports a mock debate framing a bill to keep an illicit liquor operation running without attracting law enforcement, highlighting the clash between prohibition enforcement and wartime regulation.
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Bill
Joe
American Legion Weekly
Good Hens Distinguished in Laying Performance
A good laying hen shows a large moist vent with dilation and looseness, unlike the hard puckered vent of a non laying bird. Heavy production is indicated by skin quality and the thickness and stiffness of pelvic bones. Fat departs with production, leaving soft velvety skin. The abdomen of the good producer is particularly soft and pliable.
Buffalo Legion disperses radical speaker in Lafayette Square
The American Legion in Buffalo acts to curb radical speeches in Lafayette Square on Flag Day. Legion members drive away a Proletarian speaker while city officials pledge to revoke permits for radical groups. Police insist on strict limits on free speech to prevent riotous confrontations.
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American Legion At
Buffalo
Legion
Lafayette Square
Chicago
Schwab
Meahl
Legionnaires of
Garland W. Powell
Americanist Commission of the American Legion
American Legion
Owever
Americanism Commission of the Legion
United States
Zimmerman
Legion Aids Veteran JD Rowland and Family in Need
Okanogan Washington native JD Rowland, WWI veteran, wounded in the Argonne fight, received government and legion aid. The American Legion of Okanogan secured a county relief fund grant to support his family until the Reed Johnson rehabilitation law provides lasting relief.
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Jd Rowland
Okanogan
Wash
American Legion of Okanogan
Argonne Forest
United States
American Legion
Okanogan County
Legion
Board of Commissioners
County Soldiers’ Relief Fund
Reed-Johnson
Highland Park Legion Wins Attendance Prize in Woodbridge Parade
In Woodbridge New Jersey a parade celebrating the 255th anniversary featured participants from towns within twenty miles. The Highland Park American Legion post won the $100 first prize for the post with the best attendance percentage.
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Woodbridge Township
New Jersey
American Legion
Highland Park
Post of the Legion
London Zoo Uses Twilight to Fatten Game Birds
In London zoological gardens, game birds are fattened via artificial twilight to stimulate frequent feeding.
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London Zoological Gardens
Nothing Sacred to Joker at Ball Game Cushion Incident
A New York NBA party member recounts a tale relayed by George Marble about a heavy man at a ball game sitting on a lady’s air cushion, bursting it. She laments the cushion was inflated with her late husband’s dying breath, and an apology and offer to pay fail to console her.
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New York
George Marble
Kansas City Times
Better Roads Better Health
The piece argues good roads improve health by reducing disease vectors and dust, promoting drainage, enabling quicker doctor access and hospital referrals, and aiding education and commerce, thus extending life and well being for rural and urban residents alike.
Opening Deaf Ears: Radio Lifts Deaf to Hear World
The radio revolutionizes access for the deaf by turning on hearing through radio waves. New York League for the Hard of Hearing reports 24 headsets in clubs. veterans like Warren Pond testify to music and voice they thought forever silent. The piece praises science’s unexpected, life changing outcomes.
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President Coolidge
Congress
New York League For the Hard of Hearing
S80
Warren Pond
New York League
Volta Review
Silent Land
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Egee
Macaulay
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